tff (12-28-2018)
America’s 15 wealthiest families are worth a combined $618 billion. That’s not good for our economy—or our democracy.
The New York Times investigation into the Trump family’s financial misdeeds recently revealed what had been obvious to most: The president is no self-made man. Like so many bombshell stories about the president, this story has been largely overlooked as new and more flagrant Trump indignities erupt nearly every day. Yet the tactics that the report shines a light on are hardly peculiar to the Trumps. Many wealthy families use similar tactics to stockpile their wealth and keep it from taxation that could reinvest it to meet the nation’s needs. And in doing so, these families keep building wealth with which they can wield political power.
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) takes a close look at the billionaire multi-generation families who wield that power—the American dynasties. Taking their cue from the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest people in the United States, the report, "Billionaire Bonanza," by Chuck Collins, director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good, and Josh Hoxie, director of the Project on Opportunity and Taxation, both at IPS, details how the nation’s 15 wealthiest families—some with household names (Walton, Koch, Mars), some perhaps less-known (Duncan, Bass, Stryker)—are worth a combined $618 billion.
Overwhelmingly, this is inherited money; the companies from which these families derive their wealth were all started at least a generation ago.
https://prospect.org/article/what-ta...ch-could-yield
tff (12-28-2018)
Brown pushed for and backed prop 30 but he was also in office during boomtimes for the stock market which is where California generates much of its revenue. Taxes were already high before he took office
Of course, the premise that rich families are bad for the economy has never been explained....
Nordberg (12-27-2018)
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Nordberg (12-27-2018)
Callinectes (12-28-2018), countryboy (12-27-2018), dukkha (12-27-2018), MAGA MAN (12-27-2018)
What Taxing the Rich Could Yield
The post WWII economy pre-Reaganomics/neoliberal economic system.
In my opinion:
Taxing income at a much greater rate as the income goes up...MAKES SENSE. It should be done starting tomorrow.
Taxing capital gains at the same rate as regular income...MAKES SENSE. It should be done starting tomorrow.
Taxing inherited money at a MUCH HIGHER RATE as the amount of the inheritance goes up...MAKES SENSE. It should be done starting later today!
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Truth Detector (01-07-2019)
The rich take the risk to build the company and have the talent to sustain it. The workers have to make not only their own worth but a profit back to the owner to justify employing him.
But that is just your distraction from my earlier point. What resource, specifically, is limiting such that the rich take it all and mugs go without?
If you just work hard enough you will be extremely wealthy too. That is why taxing them is bad.
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